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Jim Jasinski of Fortinet on How to Balance New Tech Adoption With Legacy Systems & Procurement Lessons From His FBI Career

Jim Jasinski joined Silicon Valley-based Fortinet one year ago to help the computer security technology product maker build its U.S. government market presence as vice president of federal business development for supply chain. Jasinski previously led the federal and state systems business at 3M Cogent and entered private industry in 2000 after a long FBI career that […] More

by Ross Wilkers March 2, 2016, 2:30 pm
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Dan Helfrich, Future Deloitte Federal Lead, on Federal Workforce Initiatives & Shared Services Trends

Workforce transformation and human capital initiatives are two federal workforce-related areas that will garner greater attention from agencies as they seek to further engage employees in the public sector, the incoming leader of Deloitte‘s federal practice has told ExecutiveBiz. Dan Helfrich, whose appointment takes effect Jan. 1, also singled out to ExecutiveBiz employee performance management and […] More

by Ross Wilkers December 16, 2015, 12:55 pm
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NVRC Study: California, Northern Virginia Top Federal Contracting States for 2010-14

California and Northern Virginia were respectively the first- and second-largest states in terms of federal contract spending between 2010 and 2014 if the latter region was a state, a new study says. The r said Monday California received approximately $255 billion in federal non-payroll, defense and non-defense contracts over that four-year period and Northern Virginia got nearly $219 billion for those same items. NVRC […] More

by Ross Wilkers November 19, 2015, 11:07 am
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Rocky Thurston on AT&T’s Mobility and ‘Internet of Things’ Focus for Agencies, Cloud Trends

Rocky Thurston joined the federal government business unit of AT&T in June as client executive vice president and focuses on activity in the segment’s Air Force market and others in the military. Thurston himself is a veteran of the Air Force as a retired flight engineer and held a managing director role at Accenture‘s federal services subsidiary […] More

by Ross Wilkers November 10, 2015, 12:54 pm
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Chris Sullivan on Tech’s Role in Serco US Arm’s Business Strategy, CIO-Exec Collaborations

Chris Sullivan joined Serco Inc. — the North American subsidiary of Serco Group — in January 2013 as chief information officer to oversee strategic direction, operation and overall business management of information technology systems. The 27-year IT and GovCon veteran previously held the CIO role at Computer Sciences Corp.’s North American public sector for four years. ExecutiveBiz recently spoke to […] More

by Ross Wilkers October 21, 2015, 1:01 pm
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Jim Lawler on ICF’s GovCon Recruiting Agenda and Job Search Advantages for Candidates

Jim Lawler started the latest chapter of his three-decade human resources career in late 2014 when he joined Fairfax, Va.-based ICF International as senior vice president of HR. Lawler previously served as chief HR officer at TASC for four years and designed that company’s HR organization, compensation and benefits programs and HR leadership team. ExecutiveBiz recently […] More

by Ross Wilkers October 5, 2015, 2:26 pm
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Steve Harris on Dell’s ‘End-to-End’ Federal Market Footprint and Enterprise IT Trends at Agencies

Steve Harris joined Dell Federal — the technology maker’s federal government organization — in March 2014 to lead that business as vice president and general manager. Harris previously led Dell’s state and local government and education business as area vice president for nearly five years and has held other sales leadership roles at the company […] More

by Ross Wilkers September 8, 2015, 1:41 pm
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Dan Bennewitz, John Lind: QTS Targets Hybrid IT, Cloud Growth Through Carpathia Buy

QTS aims to grow its offerings for federal government and commercial enterprises to manage hybrid information technology environments through its $326 million acquisition of Carpathia that closed in June, two QTS executives have told ExecutiveBiz. Those environments present the combined company with an opportunity to shift agencies away from a “one-size-fits-all“ approach for their IT […] More

by Ross Wilkers August 31, 2015, 1:31 pm
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Tom Callahan on SafeNet Assured Technologies’ Launch, Future of Cross Domain Tech

Netherlands-based digital security firm Gemalto closed its $890 million purchase of SafeNet in January of this year and shortly afterward officially launched a new subsidiary focused on the U.S. federal market — SafeNet Assured Technologies. Tom Callahan, vice president of sales at SafeNet AT, led SafeNet’s federal sales team as its VP prior to the transaction and is […] More

by Ross Wilkers July 28, 2015, 2:53 pm
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Biff Lyons, Parsons SVP, on Converged Security Trends to Watch and Cyber’s Year Ahead

Biff Lyons oversees the national security division of Parsons Corp.’s government services segment in his senior vice president role at the Pasadena, Calif.-headquartered engineering contractor. Lyons joined Parsons in 2011 upon that company’s acquisition of SPARTA, where he held a 13-year career in roles such as VP and operations manager of advanced systems technology operation, as well […] More

by Ross Wilkers May 20, 2015, 12:54 pm
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Janet Foutty, Deloitte Federal Head, on Digital Services Trends to Watch and STEM Workforce Construction

Janet Foutty took leadership of Deloitte‘s federal practice in January 2014 after a 23-year tour through the firm in roles such as managing director of technology and a stint on its financial services industry leadership team. Foutty, an inductee into Executive Mosaic’s Wash100 list for 2015, offered a preview of how she thinks shared services models and other technology advancements […] More

by Ross Wilkers March 25, 2015, 12:51 pm
in Big Data & Analytics News, News

MapR Hadoop Training Program Seeks to Build Up Federal Contractor IT Workforce Skills

A new free training program from MapR Technologies launched in January for information technology administrators, developers and data analysts to obtain certifications for data distribution platform Apache Hadoop. This program aims to help alleviate a skills shortage in the federal contracting arena, a public sector leader at MapR says. Tom White, a senior director of business development at […] More

by Ross Wilkers February 24, 2015, 9:31 am

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